often considered joining the Tories as a deep penetration agent
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:15 (four years ago) link
you live in yorkshire ;)
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
Didn’t need to read the sentence with those two elements in this morning.Shout out to whoever put On My Own by Ulrich Schnauss on the playlist and reminding me of how much I love 1) the song itself and 2) the YouTube video of my favourite model with this song over the top. Good gloomy Tuesday listening imo.
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
xphttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtM5qP3X4AIjzj7?format=jpg&name=small
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:18 (four years ago) link
i grew up amongst huntin shootin fishin folk too
Radio 3 has been surprisingly decent this morning as long as you tune out the gushing presenter banter god i have got to check my choice of adjectives this morning
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link
On My Own was my nomination! :) it'll be pretty high up my ballot, I love it. When I was younger I even put it as my favourite song of the decade in a self-indulgent ILM poll. I didn't know it had a video though!
gyac also a sleeper agent in deepest Tory Kent, they'll change their tune when the roads clog (maybe)
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link
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very important off cut missing from the wall of gammon here.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link
I love On My Own and I kind of love Ulrich Schnauss in general but whenever a Schnauss tune pops up on random I always go "oh it's Happy Cycling by Boards of Canada, oh no it's Ulrich Schnauss, oh it's not even the Ulrich Schnauss tune I thought it was"
saw him twice, once in a nice chill venue with comfy seats and perfect lighting for zoning out to drifty electronic noises and it was brilliant, so I eagerly bought tickets the next time round to see him in the art museum basement thinking that that would also be a nice chill space and it was a horrible place with too many people, nowhere to sit, pillars obscuring the stage and heavy stink of sweat and the soundguy's vape
(said chill perfect venue has also ripped out all its seats and reverted to being just another dark sweaty pub back room, which is too bad as a friend wants to go there this week - the first gig I've ventured out for in ages, if I actually go)
haven't dared look at the poll as I don't have time to think about it properly and also feel bad about how few tracks I can think of from the past decade due to being a) old b) scatterbrained and only ever remembering things I've heard in the past 2 days
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:38 (four years ago) link
imo if you're pressed for time, do a single pass through the spreadsheets and only c&p anything you really, truly love. it's hard though and obviously i'm being a bit blasé. we could do with your vote though!!
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
I usually apply (b) as a positive feature to polling on the grounds that if I can't remember it it's not worth it
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
have never seen schnauss live alas. really i've not seen much electronic music live. idk how it works can it be good idk idk they have to have mad visuals right?
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:42 (four years ago) link
glasses are the weirdest things to lose on a bender, you'd think
I have lost countless pairs of glasses while drunk. I have no idea how that happens, can only assume I've passed out on a night bus and someone just nicks them for a laugh, because I can't see why I would take them off and leave them somewhere myself
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:43 (four years ago) link
On My Own was my nomination! :) it'll be pretty high up my ballot, I love it. When I was younger I even put it as my favourite song of the decade in a self-indulgent ILM poll. I didn't know it had a video though!gyac also a sleeper agent in deepest Tory Kent, they'll change their tune when the roads clog (maybe)
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
tbf unless my gammon chums are correct Hull is as Labour af
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
Taking my glasses off is second nature to me :/
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
i stand corrected (although isn't Greg Clarke MP from around there?)
tbf i think Kent is certainly quaking under the strain, when I went to Sheerness recently there were several Labour signs visible
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
As a sometimes glasses wearer I can say this has never happened to me, only cos I can’t see beyond the tip of my nose if I take them off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ve left them in work a few times though which is always horrendous
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
gyac's russophilia has also been noted and it will have been speculated whether she and her spouse met in moscow
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:55 (four years ago) link
i am extremely blind (up to -10) and would never lose my glasses. usually i wear contact lenses when i go out socially though
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
Gotta feeling in the past I've dropped glasses while falling over or puking
I did a spectacular face plant at 6 in the morning in McDonald's the other week and popped a lens out of my glasses, got found by a helpful pitying stranger after 5 minutes of searching
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
I only really need them for TV or movies tbf but I can't enjoy either without them
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:59 (four years ago) link
tt is another 'no glasses unless at cinema' denizen, but we usually sit front row anyway so sometimes there's no need
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
my stupidest glasses move was trying to superglue a silicon nose pad back onto them whilst quite drunk. You get superglue on them lens they are finished!
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
Rene Russo
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
i left glasses on the jacks at the Oliver StJohn Gogarty during a twelve pubs spree in 2014 and when I went back the next year some cunt had swiped them
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
God you can't trust nobody
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
also, birdwatching is impossible with glasses because glasses + binoculars = nonsense
i've just volunteered to be the london bird club's spotter for my two local parks, so i'll be wearing contacts a lot more. adding a morning ramble to my schedule might be a fillip for my otherwise-stagnant creative life and a generally good thing for the *soul* etc etc
ilx birdwatching club anyone
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
maybe not so much a russophile as a pivovarovaphile, sorry to generalise
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
I can tell it's time for an eye test because my glasses have started falling off my face if I look down/bend over. the lenses still seem about right but new frames that don't do that would be lovely
(you can tighten them but once they're a couple of years old my fat head forces them loose again within a day or two)
the numbers claim I'm only a bit shortsighted but astigmatic as hell so it's all the same really, can't see much of use without them on
re 00s poll, NV partly otm about needing to remember something for it to be worth voting for, but on the other hand recency bias will see me deciding that whatever noise I heard two minutes ago was the jam of the decade while forgetting all the things I actually love. BUT I will look through the noms and try to get something together and howl in anguish when I remember some classics I should have nominated
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
birdwatching club anyone
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
wagtails are amongst my favourites! we get a few pied wagtails dotted around london, and along some of the rivers you see grey wagtails now and then. cheerful presences all. there's a pair of collared doves in my local park who sit on the tennis court fences in the early morning. alas no ravens
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:22 (four years ago) link
not sure how we found this out (might have been a mistype into google) but the urdu for collared dove is 'ghuggi' and we call them that, it is very fitting
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:12 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
DOUBLE YES! Still waiting for you to trod the Wadden Sea and spot migrating and breeding birds
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link
Withers was born in Karachi, British India (now the largest city in Pakistan) to Edgar Withers, a captain in the Royal Navy, and a Dutch-German mother, Zitette.[3] She was fondly given the name "Googie" (Little Pigeon) at a young age by her Indian ayah (nanny)
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:32 (four years ago) link
a visit to your neck of the woods is definitely on the cards, lbi! perhaps next year some time...
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link
I can barely tell most birds apart but I like to see them and collared doves make me especially happy
and wagtails, for some reason there were loads of pied wagtails in the street where I grew up and I hardly see them where I am now, despite not being that far away or very different terrain-wise (nominally more urban but still mostly low-rise residential with gardens and some grassland)
great Googie Withers fact!
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
all googie withers facts are great
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:37 (four years ago) link
shall i recount the twelve pubs itineraries of yesteryear
i shall not
tho the last one we did, pre everyone having kids, was limited to D7 and was a huge improvement
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:39 (four years ago) link
Nice LJ, we'll go mudflat hiking.
Googie Withers was great in Hotel du Lac.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
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― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
is that deems' pub crawl or an ilx birdwatch
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
xps, mostly to self: love to see coots too, common on this bit of river when I started here and now I hardly see them, alas
the tree by my flat was often home to young wood pigeons and one year some young collared doves, but now I see mainly street pigeons/rock doves in the area and daydream of tracking the ebb & flow of these things, which stretches of river are Greylag territory and which Canada geese
(there is a mixed greylag/Canada family here, don't think it's a crossbreed but I guess just a couple of goslings that ended up following the wrong family one day when two big clans of geese were sprawled out and squabbling across a grassy bank somewhere; that makes me happy too)
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
(calz is eddie marsan obv)
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
shall i recount the twelve pubs itineraries of yesteryeari shall nottho the last one we did, pre everyone having kids, was limited to D7 and was a huge improvement
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
xps, mostly to self: love to see coots too, common on this bit of river when I started here and now I hardly see them, alasthe tree by my flat was often home to young wood pigeons and one year some young collared doves, but now I see mainly street pigeons/rock doves in the area and daydream of tracking the ebb & flow of these things, which stretches of river are Greylag territory and which Canada geese(there is a mixed greylag/Canada family here, don't think it's a crossbreed but I guess just a couple of goslings that ended up following the wrong family one day when two big clans of geese were sprawled out and squabbling across a grassy bank somewhere; that makes me happy too)
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
blackheath which i am passing through right now by bus is covered in warring clans of geese, i will enumerate as we go:
shooters hill end - nothing
urgh there are loads of teens necking behind me this is putting me off my goose watching stride ffs
princess of wales pub - three different flocks of canada geese and a smattering of egyptian geese
at this point I received a phone call cancelling my lesson so I got out in central Blackheath and haven't seen if all the greylags are on the western side of the heath, you'll have to trust me that there usually are some
this thrilling content brought to you by the overpriced bakery I'm about to visit
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
Who tf says “necking” in this day & age? Fped.
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link